Fair Elections Utah
Working to improve, but not gut, our neighborhood election caucus system.
The Caucus System in Utah is the best way to make sure a grass roots process can work over large amounts of money. It is the only way someone with $100,000 can go against someone with $2,000,000 in election funds. We had a system that did NOT favor the incumbent, wealthy or famous. This was a good thing. SB 54 made things bad. The New Count My Vote is worse.

Statement from Utah Republican Party Constitutional Defense Committee

Republican leaders clarify intent of special meeting and new bylaw language

Tuesday, February 27, 2018 - Salt Lake City, UT. Don Guymon,
spokesperson for the Utah Republican Party Constitutional Defense
Committee (“CDC”), released the following statement to correct false
information, reported in the news, regarding the purpose and outcome of
the Saturday, February 24, 2018 meeting of its governing body, the State
Central Committee (SCC):

The SCC meets regularly, and sometimes
monthly, as needed, to address Party business, including organizing for
caucuses and elections. The 2018 Caucus takes place on Tuesday, March
20. For this reason, in accordance with our rules, the SCC members
called a special meeting on Saturday, February 24, to address Caucus
preparation, budget issues, and bylaw modifications, including
modification of an existing bylaw that has been under discussion since
2013.

State statute authorizes political parties to challenge the candidacy of any candidate who violates party rules.

Additionally, Justice Scalia in the U.S. Supreme Court decision on California Democratic Party vs. Jones stated:

In no area is the political association's right to exclude more
important than in its candidate-selection process. That process often
determines the party's positions on significant public policy issues,
and it is the nominee who is the party's ambassador charged with winning
the general electorate over to its views. The First Amendment reserves a
special place, and accords a special protection, for that
process...because the moment of choosing the party's nominee is the
crucial juncture at which the appeal to common principles may be
translated into concerted action, and hence to political power…

Since 2015, candidates have been required to certify they will not
violate the party rules, but the bylaw lacked enforcement language.
Under the new bylaw language, a candidate who willingly files to run,
using a method contrary to Republican Party rules, temporarily forfeits
membership in the Party, for the duration of the election cycle.

These changes were made in consultation with legal counsel and in
compliance with U.S. Supreme Court precedent and Utah Code Section
20A-8-401-(2a) . This Court precedent was confirmed in the Party’s
recent successful constitutional challenge to election law changes,
which the Utah Legislature passed in 2014 (Senate Bill 54). It is SB54
that is unconstitutional and is the subject of the current lawsuit.

If the Republican Party Executive Committee chooses to enforce this
bylaw change, it does not affect any candidate already filed to run, and
during the 2018 election cycle, it only applies to U.S. House Districts
1 and 2, so that no already filed candidate will be impacted.

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